Subject: Re: "frequency error ... exceeeds tolerance"
To: None <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: port-alpha
Date: 08/22/2007 01:31:35
gdt@ir.bbn.com wrote:

>   Aug 21 01:46:01 Omega ntpd[348]: frequency error -508 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM
> 
> The real question is whether the clock is consistently that slow
> (actually fast - I think that's the correction rate), or badly behaved.

I saw the similar errors on testing timecounter(9) support on alpha
and "options HZ=1024" fixed the problem.

I haven't tracked it closely and I'm not sure why it worked
without error before timecounter(9) merge, though.
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Izumi Tsutsui